To cap off our all-day special on Fighting the Neoliberal Agenda, we'll hear radio host and author Thom Hartmann recorded recently in Portland talking about "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America and What We Can Do to Stop It."

We'll get the first report-back from our investigative reporting team on the impact of the American Legislative Exchange Council on legislation and legislators in the state of Oregon. Some of the team will provide reports from the Spring meeting of ALEC in Kansas City May 2 - 4.

The day will also include a talk by Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, recorded in Portland on April 24th and a talk by Nomi Prins, author of "All the President's Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power," also recorded on April 24th.

Crypto-Country: The Wild Wild Works

“Is Open Source underfunded and up for grabs? Here’s Stephen Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source .

“To help fix the cash flow problem, a dozen top technology companies, including Amazon, IBM, Intel, and VMware, joined forces with The Linux Foundation to form the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII)”. –
Richard Stallman the creator of GNU and the real author of the Free Software Movement has other ideas.
If Open Source software is central to encryption/decryption, why are we letting the wolves in the front door when they already hold the keys to the back door?

With the breakdown of peace talks, expansion of settlements, and harsh rhetoric currently passing for 'dialogue' in the Israel-Palestine conflict, it's sometimes hard to have hope that this entrenched conflict can come to a peaceful resolution.

On this special program, we'll show you that there is still reason to hope. Max Blumenthal, Miko Peled, and Ali Abunimah are all deeply involved in this issue, and all have this in common: they believe that there will be peace with justice in Israel-Palestine in our lifetimes.

We'll bring you the voices of an Israeli, a Palestinian and an American who are on the frontlines in the struggle for a just peace in Israel-Palestine.

Mayday! Mayday! It's a special report on the state of the working class in the Portland area, and across the country -- featuring an exclusive interview and talk by John Nichols on 'Dollarocracy'. Plus we'll have a special edition of the Evening News with live reports from the rallies in Portland and Salem, and reports from Mayday !!

Live forum with candidates for the Oregon state legislature, hosted by KBOO's Don Merrill.
Tonight's forum will include the following candidates:
Dan Shaw Democrat State Representative District 42
Don Gavitte Democrat State Representative District 42
Joe Rowe Democrat State Representative District 44
John Sweeney Democrat State Representative District 42
Kathleen O'Brien Democrat State Representative District 42
Michael H Harrington Republican State Representative District 44
Natasha Bjornsen Democrat State Representative District 2
Scott A Mills Democrat State Representative District 18
Tom Sincic Democrat State Representative District 45

‘Ear To The Streets Of Portland’ is a dynamic broadcast with a mix of music and conversations focusing on organizers and Black/African Portlanders around building community. Tune into the next installment of Ear To The Streets Of Portland with music and conversations featuring: Michael Hicks of ‘Black Rose Books’ and the creator of the upcoming Portland Natural Hair Expo in May. Next installment of Ear To The Streets Of Portland: Thursday April 17th starting at 7:00pm RIGHT HERE on your community radio station 90.7fm Portland or on-line at K-B-O-O.fm

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This is a 30 minute discussion on the subject of homemade energy: hydrogen or HHO hybriding in cars and in the house. The possibilities of homemade hydrogen fuel are introduced in this discussion. The guest is "Tater Waynes", who has much to say about his own designs. We go in to what he has learned with two years of building and installing units, mostly for internal combustion. He produces a series of videos at youtube.com/wayneman1234. The interviewer is Sean Ongley.

Marianne Barisonek speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder about his latest nonfiction work: Strength in What Remains, A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness. The book is about a young medical student named Deo who escaped genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994, immigrated to the United States and returned to his native country to build a medical clinic. To learn more about the work of Deo's clinic, Village Health Works, or to donate, visit them at http://villagehealthworks.org . Tracy Kidder is also author of Soul of a New Machine, and Mountains Beyond Mountains, about the work of Paul Farmer.

Paul Cienfuegos disscusses how "anti-corporate activists" must stop battling corporations through the regulatory agencies. Instead it's time to flex muscles and become "We The People" - with constitutional authority over our government & corporate entities with the legal capacity to define what corporations are rather than just regulate what they do. Cienfuegos spoke in Portland Friday, Oct 2 at the Econvergence Northwest Regional Gathering on the Economic and Ecological Crisis. He and Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Environmental Lega Defense Fund, also took questions from the audience. This talk aired on KBOO on Oct 7, 2009.

Here at KBOO, we're slowing digging through our archives to bring hidden gems to light in the digital era. While much of our archived audio is on reel-to-reel, we have some newer work on CD format that we're currently unearthing.

Here's a great example: Nikki Giovanni's 2002 appearance at Clark College. In addition to some great readings of her poems, she speaks candidly about slavery, Mars, aliens, black holes, and the Panama Canal.

For more than 40 years, the Cuban people have faced an economic, commercial and financial blockade by the government of the United States of America.

Cubans say this is one of the most cruel, inhuman and prolonged policies of hostility endured by any people in the history of human civilization.

Throughout these last 44 years, a total of 10 different U.S. administrations have reinforced and expanded the complex system of laws and measures that make up the blockade established by the U.S. government against the people of Cuba.

This policy has inflicted and continues to inflict serous damage to the Cuban people’s material, psychological and spiritual welfare, while seriously hindering its economic, cultural and social development.

An event was held in Portland on Sunday to send a painted solidarity school bus of aid from the Pacific Northwest to Cuba. The bus will be joining thirty other vehicles, and over one hundred participants, who will be crossing into Cuba on July 21st. This will be the first open attempt to break the blockade during the Obama administration.

Sunday’s event began with singer David Rovics.

Speakers include Alicia Jrapko and Nita Palmer. The segment ends with a song by Maria Damaris.

Forum on “Israel and the Misuse of Anti-Semitism: Jewish Activists Speak out”. This forum was recorded at Portland State University in May. The first speaker is Maxine Fookson, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Portland who is active in issues of war, poverty and oppression affecting children.